Your point is IMHO solid. For all the distros I've tried, they all required some level of tinkering to get them where I liked them. Granted, I am a bit partial towards polished desktop experience, but even so, a majority of my work goes towards cleaning-up my audio apps as often prebuilt packages are incomplete (CCRMA being a glaring exception to this). All this, however, is a byproduct of the fact that Linux is meant to run on everything from a washing machine to a supercomputer. Audio being a very specialized area begs for total integration of OS with specific hardware. In other words, we could definitely benefit from a vendor which specializes in professional low-latency hw/sw combo sales if we are to expect the level of polish expected from a modern OS. However, given the size of pro audio market coupled with Linux market, anyone venturing in this is going to have a heck of a time turning profit... Until such time comes, IMHO we're bound to continue tinkering, which is something you may or may not find acceptable given the long-term benefits Linux offers. Best wishes, Ico > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-audio- > user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuckk Hubbard > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:27 AM > To: A list for linux audio users > Subject: Re: Real-time kernel > > On 12/1/06, Bill Allen <lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that I've been just reading > > this thread (not to mention the time that you've been putting into > > trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio, set aside > > a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system with all the > > real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can get. Yes, > > you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my family > > system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do music I boot > > into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to make a general > > purpose distro into a music enabled one. > > I don't understand why everyone who tells me about some new Linux > thing has apparently had a breeze of a time with it, and yet when I > try it it never works. I just downloaded and installed 64studio (I > didn't boot Linux for the remainder of my semester, like I promised > myself), and I find that jackd crashes out of the box (i.e. set to > 46.4 ms latency). It kind of feels like I have another Debian install > just like the previous one, only it doesn't detect the ethernet so I > can't search for help on the same machine. > After a few weeks using Windows, I'm not even sure why I was so intent > on Linux. I think for a few weeks I was actually enjoying the > struggle. I'm not now; is this going to be less of one? > > -Chuckk
